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The Flex 4 ACE Exam is based upon the most critical job activities that a Flex developer performs. The skills and knowledge certified by this examination [...]
Today I came across the following video…
The application in the video is a virtual dressing room! You can try out the clothes you want to buy in your living room and then purchase them if you like how they fit you or send the image to your friends on Facebook. What [...]
Sometimes you need to pass values from components to skin, for example having a dynamic layout. Using Flex sdk 4 you can transfer values using content property of the hostComponent ({hostComponent.content}).
I made a small example that use hostComponent.content, changing the values of HSliders the colors of the component will be changed.
So [...]
The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:
Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving [...]
The FX4 Tour – Flex Camp Bucharest is over now. It has been a great success: there has been around 60 participants from which 65-70 percent were Flex developers. This is great! The Flex community is growing bigger and stronger.
Three interesting things:
seen TransformGestureEvent in action
Slider – Flex Mobile Framework is expected to be available in [...]
As you know on 15th of April 2010 a new Flex Camp will take place in Bucharest. Now we have the registration and some agenda modification. Most important change is that it will start around 4:30 PM.
16:30 – 17:00 – Registration
17:00 – 17:45 – Keynote – Mihai Corlan
17:45 – 18:30 – 10 things you didn’t [...]
On 15th of April 2010 we will have a Flex Camp, related to the recent launch of Flash Builder 4 which will take place at Adobe Systems Romania Offices (Anchor Plaza, Bdul. Timisoara, nr. 26Z, Bucharest). We will start around 5:30 PM and we will end somewhere before the last bus. There will be food [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (GMT+0200) join our friend Mihai Corlan (Platform Evangelist for Adobe) while he goes through the basics of debugging a Flex and PHP application.
See how to work with: Flash Builder 4, Xdebug and Eclipse PDT to ensure a bug free project.
The presentation will take about 45 [...]
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (GMT+0200) will be available online an interesting web seminar hosted by Adobe Systems.
Join Piotr Walczyszyn for this 30 minutes e-seminar followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Learn how to define mutitouch, how to support it, and how you can handle multitouch events. [...]
Wednesday, 27th of January, in Bucharest, Mark Anders, the creator of Flash Catalyst will tell us how Flash Catalyst appeared and how it got done. For anyone who doesn’t know about him, Mark Anders is a major contributor for the whole Adobe Flex platform.
The meeting starts at 6 PM but we will start gather and [...]
What is AMF and a bit of history
Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange [...]
It’s recommended to use same SDK version components in same file, so I skin a button in Flex SDK 4 using only Spark components.
In Halo we use to add an icon to a button using icon property:
<mx:Button width="120"
icon="@Embed(source=’ico/add-blue.gif’)"
[...]
Now Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK 4 are available, so we can play around in beta version.
As you probably already know there are same changes regarding skinning from Halo to Spark, I search the web, I read the manual and I think that I got some skills .
It will be a series of [...]
Yesterday (10.06.2009) at Adobe Systems Romania offices took place the Adobe User Groups Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop event. The event was a success – great things presented. Even all tickets were sold out long time before the event only 40 persons showed up at the event.
The event was about new beta products that [...]
As was expected we have at this time a final agenda for this event.
17:00 – 17:30
Registration participants
17:30 – 17:45
Opening Message
17:45 – 19:00
Flash Builder 4 & Catalyst, Cornel Creanga & Michael Corlan
19:00 – 19:45
Break for pizza and beer
19:45 – 20:15
Flex 4 SDK, Michael Pricop
20:15 – 20:45
PHP Services in Flash Builder 4, Andrei Ionescu
20:45 – 21:00
Break
21:15 – [...]